Medic, who served on served on National Public Health Emergency Team during pandemic, replaces Breda Smyth
Professor Mary Horgan has been appointed interim Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health by Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.
Previously Dean of the Medical School in University College Cork , she was elected as the first female President of the Royal College of Physicians since its founding in 1654 and was re-elected to serve her second term in 2020.Sinéad Hussey: ‘We treat miscarriages as a blip or something that’s easily forgotten’‘You’re not Irish. You’re not one of us’: Northern students on a year in the South
Speaking following Cabinet approval of Prof Horgan’s appointment, Mr Donnelly said the CMO plays a “a critical role” in developing policy and legislation regarding patient safety, quality in health care, and in developing strategies to support and improve population health. The department has suffered an exodus of senior staff since the end of the pandemic. Key medical posts have been left unfilled, despite the gaps in Ireland’s pandemic preparedness exposed by
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